It is tough to buy the homes cheap enough to where you can then rehab them and sell them at a profit. 

However, I would look at other options to see if AirBNB will work or Furnished Finder for travel nurses.

The medical traveler wants to work at the local hospital.

I'm currently living in Tennessee and travel the state east to west several times a year.

With proximity to a hospital and a university, there's potential to attract both traveling professionals (for MTR) and students or faculty for long-term leases.

Here in AZ, you can generally piece together those subcontractors at pretty cheap rates, so unless you need an acutal GC for permits being pulled, etc...

I had a prospective tenant (traveling nurse) last week who was interested in renting the unit starting in mid-August and I sent her the link to the Avail application.

I live in the SF Bay Area and have decided to buy my first single-family home.I fully acknowledge and recognize that the SF Bay Area and California (in general) may have some of the worst cash flow numbers in the entire country.I've already traveled to cheaper Midwestern states to look at real estate opportunities, but have decided to invest here in the SF Bay Area as I'm purchasing with the intention of living in it first and foremost, and then renting it out sometime in the near future when I move overseas.I'm looking for anywhere in the Greater Bay Area/Northern California region (even Sacramento & Central Valley is okay) with better than average purchase price to rent ratio, and some appreciation (if possible). 

But, those were SFHs & cheap ones at that.

It's not worth the travel and time to travel to a market to check on a property when your upside is a few extra hundred per month.